Exposure to community violence, either as victims or witnesses, is a widespread and persistent problem in many of America’s urban cities. In the U.S., the number of adolescents murdered each year can fill a high school of almost 6,000 students. As alarming as these figures are, the frequency of non-fatal adolescent injuries is at least 120 times that of youth murders, and it is estimated that more than 1.2 million crimes against adolescents go unreported yearly. Exposure to community violence has been linked to mental health problems, poor academic performance, involvement with risky peer networks, and more recently, as Professor Voisin’s work has documented, engaging in unsafe sex which increases the chances of contracting HIV. Collectively, these are problems which disproportionately affect African American and Latino youths. According to research by Voisin, studies on the impact of community violence have been generally artificially compartmentalized to examine discipline-specific outcomes (e.g., mental health, education performance, delinquency, and more recently risky sex) and have not adequately considered the interrelationships among these various domains which represent a major focus of Voisin’s scholarship. Through engaged research, teaching, service, and training, Voisin is committed to illuminating the broad impact of community violence on the developmental trajectories of young persons.

For over21 years, Professor Voisin has been conducting numerous studies which seek to better understand the various ways in which community violence exposure impacts the mental health, educational, and sexual trajectories of urban youth, with a major focus towards HIV prevention and intervention. His research has been funded by competitive awards from the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, among others. His prior research has informed public policy and provided support for the passage of the
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. This bill will provide a state advisory council which will make recommendations to the Illinois Department of Public Health on effective prevention messages to deter youths from engaging in risky behaviors that lead to HIV/AIDS infections. Voisin’s research has been cited by the Anne E. Casey Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the California Department of Education, the Nebraska Department of Education, and the National Institutes of Health, among many others.

The Eighth Meeting of States Parties (8MSP)
to the Convention on Cluster Munitions will take place from
3-5 September 2018 in Room XVIII
at the Palais des Nations in
Geneva
, Switzerland.

The Eighth Meeting of States Parties (8MSP)
3-5 September 2018 in Room XVIII
Geneva

The Convention on Cluster Munitions is a humanitarian imperative-driven legal instrument which prohibits all use, production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. In addition, it establishes a framework for cooperation and assistance to ensure adequate assistance to survivors and their communities, clearance of contaminated areas, risk reduction education and destruction of stockpiles.

By ratifying or acceding to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, States Parties commit to never use, produce, stockpile or transfer cluster munitions. Furthermore States Parties commit to destroy existing stockpiles in eight years; clear contaminated land in ten years; assist victims; provide technical, material and financial assistance to other States Parties; undertake transparency measures; adopt national implementation measures; and promote universal adherence to the Convention.

Cluster munitions are unacceptable for two reasons. Firstly, they have wide area effects and are unable to distinguish between civilians and combatants. Secondly, the use of cluster munitions leave behind large numbers of dangerous unexploded ordnance. Such remnants kill and injure civilians, obstruct economic and social development, and have other severe consequences that persist for years and decades after use.

How many States joined the Convention?
Adopted on 30 May 2008 in Dublin, Ireland and signed on 3-4 December 2008 in Oslo, Norway, the Convention on Cluster Munitions entered into force on 01 August 2010. To date120 states have committed to the goals ofthe Convention, of which
103 have become full States Parties and 17 are signatories
.

In order to get Photo Sphere Viewer working on browsers without WebGL you will need some additional files from Three.js examples (also available in
three.js-examples
Bower package) :

In order to be able to respond to device gyroscope (
gyroscope
option), Photo Sphere Viewer requires the following files from Three.js examples (also available in
three.js-examples
Bower package) :

Photo Sphere Viewer uses a lot of angles for it's configuration, most of them can be defined in radians by using a simple number (
3.5
) or in degrees using the "deg" prefix (
'55deg'
).

Some methods take a
position
parameter. It is an object with either
longitude
and
latitude
properties (radians or degrees) or
x
and
y
properies (corresponding to the pixel position on the source panorama file).

navbar
is an array which can contain the following core buttons:
autorotate
,
zoom
,
download
,
markers
,
gyroscope
,
fullscreen
, as well as
caption
and objects to create custom buttons :

This example uses some core buttons and a custom one.

After the viewer creation you cannot add or remove buttons but you can change their visibility. Use the
getNavbarButton(id)
method the get a button by its id (works for core buttons too). You will get an object with the following methods:
disable()
,
enable()
,
hide()
,
show()
.